It Begins

It didn’t feel like that long but time had flowed by like a spring stream, and suddenly three days had passed in the darkness that was the Baili family’s dungeons.

During this time, no one had visited him. There were people surrounding him he knew—as he could sense them with his perception, but none of them had engaged in conversation or tried to give him any food or drink.

Spiritual energy cultivators needed to eat and drink to sustain their bodies if their Qi levels had not reached a high enough realm, but Xue Wei was an Earth Knight, and he could be supported entirely on the heaven-and-earth essence.

So apart from being slightly bored, Xue Wei felt no discomfort. He even spent the time cultivating his Qi and spiritual energy, alternating between the two. He did not want to neglect one or the other, now that they were about equal.